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HoBART  College. 


Evening  of  Ascension  Day. 


A.  D.  1894. 


PREFATORY  NOTE. 


In  the  year  1824  the  conditions  were  fulfilled  under  which  the 
provisional  charter  of  1822  became  operative  by  the  subsequent 
action  of  the  Regents,  for  the  foundation  of  Hobart  College. 

The  College  is  a  general  institution  of  the  Church  ;  all  Bishops 
of  jurisdiciion  in  the  United  States,  and  especially  the  Bishops  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  being  members  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  ; 
the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the  College  stands,  being  ex- 
officio  one  of  the  trustees  ;  the  Hon.  Chancellor  James  M.  Smith, 
LL.D.,  being  chairman,  and  Mr.  Douglas  Merritt  being  vice- 
chairman  of  the  Corporation. 

President  Potter's  strong  objection  to  introducing  matter  refer- 
in  g  however  cordially  to  him,  has  been  overruled  because  of  the 
necessity  of  taking  every  opportunity  of  removing  as  far  as  may 
be  the  prevailing  paralyzing  impression  that  our  Church  and 
Churchmen  take  little  or  no  interest  in  Church  Collegiate  Edu- 
cation. 

The  following  letter  of  the  President  of  the  Alumni  Associa-  • 
tion,  and  the  action  of  the  Faculty,  which  it  presents,  refers  to 
President  Potter's  election  in  January,  1884,  the  date  of  his  letter 
of  acceptance  being  some  months  later,  upon  Ascension  Day, 
from  Keeble  College,  Oxford  University,  England.  His  residence 
at  Hobart  College  did  not  begin,  however,  until  the  Autumn,  and 
his  lectures  not  until  1885.  It  is  expected  that  the  Corporation 
will  take  action  at  the  annual  meeting  in  June,  for  special  effort 
in  behalf  of  the  institution  during  1894-5  ;  the  commemorative 
exercises  culminating  at  Hobart  College. 

This  pamphlet,  which  has  been  compiled  by  request,  is.  not 
published,  but  a  few  copies  may  be  had  on  application /  to  the 
Registrar  of  Hobart  College,  Geneva,  N.  Y.  / 


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New  York,  Easter  Monday,  1894. 

To  the  Alumni  of  Hobart  College : 

The  large  Hobart  Hall,"  one  of  the  finest  rooms  in  the  city,  with  the 
ample  adjoining  apartments,  occupied  by  Bishop  Potter  in  the  Diocesan 
House,  29  Lafayette  Place,  have  through  his  kindness  been  placed  at  the  ser- 
vice of  Hobart  College  for  a  reception  of  its  Alumni  and  friends  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  May  3d,  1894. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  occasion  may  be  the  means  of  bringing  together  in 
large  numbers  not  only  the  Alumni,  but  also  many  friends  of  Church  Col- 
legiate education,  and  to  this  end  your  attendance  and  cooperation  are  earn- 
estly solicited. 

The  day  selected  will  commemorate  the  seventieth  year  of  the  founda- 
tion of  the  College  and  the  decade  of  President  Potter's  administration. 
The  Faculty  of  the  College  recently  and  in  his  absence,  in  view  of  the  ap- 
proaching re-union,  unanimously  adopted  the  following  resolutions  : 

*'I  Resolved^  That  this  Faculty,  in  view  of  the  decennial  anniversary 
of  the  election  of  President  Potter  to  his  present  office,  desires  to  offer  him 
its  congratulations  on  the  substantial  progress  and  improvement  which  have 
attended  his  administration.  The  number  of  students  has  increased,  and  the 
quality  of  their  preparation  has  steadily  improved.  In  both  these  respects 
the  condition  of  the  College  at  present  is  more  encouraging  than  at  any 
period  of  its  history.  The  real  estate  of  the  College  has  been  materially 
added  to  ;  the  Faculty  is  more  numerous  ;  we  have  an  admirable  fire-proof 
library,  an  excellent  gymnasium,  and  an  adequate  museum.  The  number 
of  our  active  friends,  and  the  interest  of  the  Alumni  in  the  affairs  of  the 
College  have  steadily  grown  ;  and  although  sufficient  endowment  is  still  a 
desideratum,  there  has  been  a  growth  in  this  from  benefactions  and  be- 
quests, and  the  foundations  may  be  regarded  as  already  laid  for  a  better 
future. 

II.  Resolved^  That  in  this  opinion  of  this  Faculty,  all  the  facts  above 
stated  should  stimulate  and  encourage  those  authorized  to  prosecute  the 
work  of  enlarging  the  endowrpent  and,  multipiying  the  facilities  for  instruc- 
tion which  the  high  standards  of  the  day  uaceasingly  impose  on  Colleges 
and  Universities,  in  which  aims  this  Faculty  relies  on  the  President's  zeal, 
and  upon  the  constant  interest  and  devotion  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

"III.  Resolved,  That  tliis  Faculty  further  desires  to  put  on  record  its 
sense  of  gratitude  for  the  high  consideration  and  confidence  which  the  Presi- 
dent has  uftiformly  shown  towards  the  heads  of  the  respective  departments 
— a  consideration  which  has  deserved  and,  as  we  hope,  has  called  forth  a  cor- 
responding sense  of  obligation  to  fulfil  the  duties  that  devolve  upon  them, 
nor  can  they  refrain  from  expressing,  at  the  same  time,  their  warm  and  sm- 
cere  regard  for  him  as  a  neighbor  and  a  friend." 

It  is  meet  and  right  that  these  periods  of  Academic  growth  and  progress 
should  be  marked  by  their  dignified  observance,  by  all  who  tenderly  care  for 
the  welfare  and  prosperity  of  their  Alma  Mater. 

By  the  thoughtful  provision  of  the  College,  refreshments  will  be  served 
^^n  the  Hall,  and  addresses  by  distinguished  citizens  may  be  expected. 
Yours  very  sincerely, 

CivARKNCE  A.  Seward, 
Prcside)it  of  the  Aliiitiui  Association. 


From  the  Presiding  Bishop,  Bishop  of  Conn,  and  Chancellor  of  Hobart 
College  for  1892-3. 

My  Dear  President  :  I  regret  that  it  will  not  be  possible  for  me  to 
be  present  at  the    Hobart  Reception  "  in  New  York. 

But  I  cannot  let  the  occasion  pass  without  sending  you  my  warm  con- 
gratulations on  the  distinguished  success  and  results  of  your  Presidency. 
They  have  more  than  fulfilled  all  the  hopes  and  anticipations  that  greeted 
your  accession  to  the  office. 

May  many  years  continue  your  administration,  and  bring  ever  increasing 
prosperity  to  the  institution — having  so  honored  a  name  and  doing  so  good  a 
work — over  which  you  preside. 

Very  affectionately  yours,  J.  Wii^i^iams. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Rhode  Island,  Chancellor  of  Hobart  College  for  i8go  gr. 
My  Dear  Mr.  President:  I  regret  that  my  engagements  will  not 
allow  me  to  be  present  with  you  in  New  York  on  the  third  of  May,  but  this 
will  be  impossible.  I  recall  with  great  satisfaction  the  interesting  visit  that 
I  made  at  Hobart  College  (as  its  Chancellor)  some  two  or  three  years  ago.  I 
was  much  impressed  by  the  beauty  of  the  location,  the  ability  of  the  faculty 
and  all  the  surroundings  of  the  institution.  I  think  that  this  gathering  in 
New  York  may  still  further  enkindle  the  interest  of  the  Alumni  in  the  wel- 
fare of  this  college  ;  for  very  much  depends  upon  this. 

I  have  also  many  grateful  recollections  of  yourself  in  days  gone  by,  and 
wish  you  a  long,  and  a  happy  and  a  very  useful  life. 

Very  sincerely  yours,  Thomas  M.  Clark. 


From  the  Bishop  of  We  sterol  New  York,  Chancellor  of  Hobart  College,  iSSy-S. 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlkmen  :  By  a  very  pleasant  coincidence, 
your  kind  invitation  has  reached  me  in  Geneva  where  I  arrived  this  morn- 
ing partly  for  the  purpose  of  making  enquiries  concerning  the  approaching 
festivity.  Its  precise  date  I  had  not  learned  before,  and  I  lose  no  time  in 
expressing  to  you  my  regrets  that  my  official  engagements  at  that  time  ren- 
der it  impossible  for  me  to  be  present,  and  my  regrets  are  the  more  empha- 
sized by  the  fact  that  were  I  otherwise  circumstanced,  I  should  be  able  to 
meet  you  and  the  alumni  and  others  with  congratulations  upon  the  present 
condition  of  the  College,  such  as  on  former  occasions  of  the  kind  would  have 
been  less  appropriate.    A  stagnation  of  interest  of  the  affairs  of  the  College 


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on  the  part  of  many  from  whom  more  might  have  been  expected  has  too 
long  occasioned  a  deep  depression  in  your  minds  and  my  own,  such  as  has 
been  wholly  inconsistent  with  felicitations  and  rejoicings.  Of  late,  friends 
and  helpers  have  begun  to  appear  in  quarters  to  which  some  time  since  we  ^ 
might  have  looked  in  vain  for  aid.  Such  results  I  attribute  to  the  admirable 
standard  of  education  which  has  been  reached  and  steadfastly  maintained 
through  many  difficulties  and  discouragements.  To  our  energetic  and  faith- 
ful corps  of  Professors  you  would  be  the  first  to  attribute  due  praise. 

Nothing  less  than  such  achievements  can  ever  command  success  for  a 
college.  A  staff  of  highly  accomplished  and  devoted  men  is  the  primary 
consideration  for  creating  enduring  sympathy  and  support  from  public  bene- 
factors. 

But  you,  gentlemen  of  the  Trustees,  must  permit  me  to  add  that  an 
efficient  Presidency  and  the  untiring  efforts  of  its  incumbent  are  always 
requisite  to  excite  the  loyality  of  Alumni,  and  the  liberality  of  public  spirited 
individuals.  That  the  Presidency  of  Dr.  Potter  has  been  eminently  success- 
ful as  a  stimulus  to  sucji  interest  and  beneficence  you  will  gratefully  acknowl- 
edge. We  owe  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  for  the  steady  improvement  of  our 
College  in  all  its  departments  ;  and  here  I  thankfully  acknowledge  the  moral 
and  Christian  influences  which  have  been  brought  to  bear  upon  the  students 
in  such  a  way  as  to  commend  it  to  parents  as  a  safe  place  for  the  training  of 
their  sons  as  Christian  gentlemen.  In  our  days  I  think  this  to  be  a  tribute 
of  the  highest  practical  importance,  and  I  accord  it  with  heartfelt  sincerity.  r. 

Wishing  you  entire  satisfaction  in  the  enjoyment  of  an  occasion  which 
I  trust  may  contribute  largely  to  the  future  prosperity  of  Hobart  College,  I 
am,  Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen,  your  faithful  friend  and  servant  in  behalf 
of  Christ  and  His  Church,  A.  Ci.KVKr.AND  CoxK. 


From  the  Bishop  of  South  Dakota y  Chancellor  of  Hobart  College,  18^3-4. 

My  Dear  President  Potter  :  I  wish  I  could  show  my  appreciation 
of  the  high  honor  Hobart  College  has  done  me  in  appointing  me  one  of  its 
Honorary  Chancellors  by  being  present  at  the  reception  to  be  given  May  3d, 
in  commemoration  of  the  seventieth  year  of  the  foundation  of  the  college 
and  the  tenth  year  of  your  leadership.  Appointments,  or  rather  a  chain  of 
them,  long  since  made  take  me  in  a  few  days  to  the  remoter  parts  of  So. 
Dakota  and  I  shall  not  be  able  to  turn  my  face-eastward  May  3d.  My  inter- 
est in  Hobart  is  not  merely  inherited  but  arises  from  the  practical  fact  that 
two  of  my  small  band  of  clergy  are  sons  of  Hobart.  Judging  from  its  Presi- 
dent and  from  these  two  men,  courage  and  persistent  energy  must  be  charac- 
teristic of  the  institution.  Of  the  former  I  may  not  say  more  in  a  letter  ad- 
dressed to  him,  but  of  the  latter  I  may  say  that  they  courageously  plunged 
into  the  wilderness  in  Christ's  name  twenty-two  years  ago,  and  have  re- 
mained persistently  at  their  work  out  here  ever  since, 
\o\ir  faithful  friend  and  brother, 

W.  H.  Hare. 


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From  the  Bishop  of  Ohio. 

Dear  Mr.  President  :  I  need  hardly  assure  you  of  ray  affectionate 
good  wishes,  on  this  auspicious  occasion  of  your  jubilee  as  President  of  Ho- 
bart  College.  The  Church  in  this  country  as  well  as  her  associated  educa- 
tional institutions  owe  you  a  debt  of  gratitude  and  regard.  For  you  have, 
with  a  generous  and  large-minded  spirit,  devoted  your  energies  and  abilities 
to  the  unification  and  strengthening  of  all  the  Church  Colleges  of  our  land 
as  well  as  to  the  upbuilding  and  invigoration  of  the  venerable  home  of 
sound  learning  over  which,  for  ten  years,  you  have  so  wisely  held  rule.  It 
is  evident  to  us  all,  that  you  realize  that  the  strong  must  give  a  helping  hand 
to  the  weak ;  and  that  in  our  Church  unit  is  a  power  luminously  illustrated 
for  us  by  the  Divine  Being  whom  we  would  serve.  May  your  zealous  en- 
deavors be  crowned  with  the  success  they  merit ;  and  may  your  signal  ser- 
vice as  a  Christian  educator  and  leader  be  continually  augmented.  The 
Diocese  of  Ohio  sends  to  you  her  congratulations.  I  regret  extremely  that 
duties  and  engagementsjprevent  my  presence  at  Hobart's  "  glorious  anni- 
versary. I  am  sincerely  and  faithfully, 

WiiviviAM  Andrew  Leonard. 


From  the  Bishop  of  New  fersey. 

My  Dear  President  Potter  :  I  am  sorry  I  must  send  you  my  con- 
gratulations instead  of  offering  them  in  person,  as  I  should  very  much 
prefer  doing  The  meeting  of  my  Diocesan  Convention,  within  the  week  of 
your  anniversary,  will  keep  me  on  this  side  of  the  Hudson  River  and  de- 
prive me  of  the  very  great  pleasure  of  joining  with  your  many  friends  in 
keeping  your  anniversary.  I  am  sure  you  must  feel  real  satisfaction  in  the 
results  wrought  at  Hobaft  in  ten  years.  Colleges,  as  a  rule,  are  a  slow 
growth — but  to  all  the  oak  trees  of  the  forest !  You  are  laying  strong  founda- 
tions that  others  may  build  on  them.  Under  you,  Hobart  is  winning  con- 
fidence as  well  as  prosperity.  If  our  Church  only  had  some  one  like  Mr. 
Rockefeller  to  give  you  a  million — or  even  two  or  three  millions  of  dollars, 
you  could  make  the  closing  of  this  century  brilliant  as  an  educational  era.' 
May  green  eyes  yet  see  some  of  the  great  things  hoped  for,  as  living  realities, 
and  may  the  friends  of  Hobart  College  respond  generously  to  your  plea. 
Your  friend  sincerely, 

John  Scarborough. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present 
at  the  meeting  of  the  President,  Trustees,  Faculty,  and  Alumni  of  Hobart 
College  at  the  Dioscesan  House  in  New  York  on  the  evening  of  the  3d  of 
May,  and  I  greatly  regret  that  my  engagements  will  prevent  me  from  accept- 
ing your  kind  invitation. 


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I  cannot  forbear,  however,  congratulating  you  on  the  prosperity  which 
has  attended  Hobart  College  since  you  became  its  President,  and  I  desire  to 
thank  you  for  the  efficient  service  that  you  have  rendered  in  establishing  the 
Church  University  Board,  and  in  so  far  perfecting  its  plan  of  operations, 
that  it  bids  fair  to  become  a  power  in  the  advancement  of  Church  Collegiate 
education.  Very  faithfully  yours, 

 O.  W.  WhiTaker. 

From  the  Bishop  of  Tennessee. 

My  Dear  Dr,  Potter  :  I  regret  that  other  engagements  will  render 
it  impossible  for  me  to  be  with  you  next  week  on  your  anniversary.  With 
all  my  heart  I  congratulate  you  upon  the  great  work  you  have  done  and  are 
doing  for  the  cause  of  Christian  education.  My  heart  has  been  in  it  for 
many  years  and  I  hope  that  this  enthusiasm  shall  continue  with  me  to  the  end. 

Praying  Lord's  abundant  blessing  upon  you,  I  am, 

Most  sincerely  etc,,  Thos.  F.  Gaii^or. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Maryland^  Alumnus  of  Hobart, 

Dear  Sir  :  I  greatly  wish  it  could  be  in  my  power  to  accept  your  invi- 
tation and  be  present  at  the  reception  of  the  Alumni  and  friends  of  Hobart 
College  on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  May  3d.  But  that  being  Ascension 
Day,  I  have  assumed  important  duties  in  one  of  my  parishes  which  I  cannot 
postpone. 

Although  I  have  not  shown  my  interest  by  my  presence,  I  have  really  a 
very  deep  gratitude  for  the  benefits  I  myself  received  from  Hobart,  for  its 
kindness  to  me  in  person,  and  in  my  official  relations.  As  I  have  influence 
I  have  tried  to  send  students  there.    My  confidence  in  it  has  steadily  grown. 

Yours  truly,  Wii^i^lAM  PareT. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Nebraska^  Alummis  of  Hobart. 

My  Dear  President  Potter  :  I  regret  that  I  am  unable  to  manifest 
the  deep  interest  I  feel  in  Christian  Education,  and  especially  in  the  impor- 
.tant  work  entrusted  to  ''The  Church  University  Board  of  Regents,"  by  my 
presence  at  **The  Diocesan  House,"  N.  Y.,  May  3d,  in  response  to  the  kind 
and  appreciated  invitation  which  is  now  before  me.  As  an  alumnus  of 
Hobart  College,  may  I  be  permitted  to  congratulate  you  on  the  successful 
completion  of  your  decade  as  president.  The  ten  years  of  your  administra- 
tion of  the  College  has  been  characterized  by  such  substantial  progress  and 
improvement  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  my  Alma  Mater,  that  you 
deserve  the  grateful  acknowledgment  of  all  who  are  interested  in  the  welfare 
of  "Hobart."  Sincerely  yours, 

G.  WORTHINGTON. 


From  the  Assistant  Bishop  of  Minnesota^  Alummis  of  Hobart. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  Certainly  your  invitation  to  be  present  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Hobart  Alumni  in  New  York  on  the  3d  of  May  is  a  most 


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tempting  one.  I  do  indeed  wish  that  I  could  be  present.  My  interest  irr 
Hobart  remains  undimmed,  and  I  always  watch  its  career  with  the  deepest 
personal  interest.  One  thing  has  always  impressed  me  most  favorably, that 
Hobart  has  never  lowered  its  standard  of  scholarship  one  iota  for  the  purpose 
of  purchasing  popularity  or  of  swelling  its  numbers.  It  stands  now  as  in 
the  past  for  the  highest  and  choicest  type  of  scholarship.  So  may  it  ever 
be.  My  warmest  congratulations  go  out  to  you  personally  for  the  successful 
administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  college,  and  I  bespeak  for  you  many 
years  of  influence  and  usefulness  therein.  Please  convey  to  the  Alumni  and 
friends  of  the  college  assurances  of  my  fraternal  greetings. 

Believe  me,  Most  truly  yours, 

M  N.  GlIvBERT. 


From  the  Bishop  of  West  Virginia. 

My  Dear  Sir  :  I  am  in  receipt  of  your  kind  invitation  of  the  19th 
inst.  for  the  Anniversary  on  May  3d,  and  write  to  acknowledge  and  to  thank 
you  for  it.  I  regret  to  say  that  previous  engagements  will  prevent  my  ac- 
ceptance. I  cannot  forbear  saying,  however,  that  I  am  in  hearty  sympathy 
with  the  movement  and  should  like  to  see  its  benefits  extend  to  my  Diocese. 
In  our  feebleness  we  can  do  but  little,  perhaps  I  had  better  say  nothing  as 
yet,  and  still  I  am  bold  enough  to  send  you  my  Address  to  my  Council  in 
1892,  the  marked  passages  of  which  ( see  p.  27 )  will  at  least  show  this^,  that 
we  have  some  aspirations.  Owing  to  a  variety  of  circumstances,  into  which 
I  shall  not  enter  here,  we  have  done  nothing  yet,  except  stimulate  the  little 
congregation  to  renovate  and  enlarge  the  little  chapel  we  have  in  Morgan - 
town,  so  that  now  it  is  sightly  and  commodious.  I  estimate  that  it  will  take 
$15,000  or  perhaps  $20,000  to  carry  out  the  plans  indicated  fully,  and  I  am  a 
great  believer  in  the  power  of  a  persistent  purpose,  especially  if  it  be  one  on 
which  we  can  ask  God's  blessing.  I  may  add  that  I  have  received  a  most 
gratifying  and  favorable  answer  from  the  Regents  of  the  University,  conced- 
ing all  I  ask  for.    I  am  respectfully  and  faithfully  yours, 

Geo.  W.  Pkterkin. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Springfield, 

Rev.  and  Dear  Brother  :  I  have  received  with  great  pleasure  the 
invitation  to  be  present  at  the  reception  tendered  by  the  authorities  of 
Hobart  College  to  its  alumni  and  with  gracious  hospitality  to  various  others 
representing  Church  education  and  the  interests  of  Christian  scholarship  in 
our  country. 

It  would  give  me  great  satisfaction  to  be  present  on  such  an  interesting 
occasion  which  commemorates  the  seventieth  year  of  Hobart  College's  age 
and  the  tenth  year  of  your  successful  administration  of  its  affairs  as  President 
of  the  institution.  I  should  enjoy  extremely  the  retrospect  into  the  past  of 
your  College  in  association  with  the  noble  Bishop  whose  name  it  bears,  and 
I  should  find  exceeding  gratification  in  listening  to  the  reminiscences  of 
your  presidential  career  since  you  were  called  to  the  high  trust  which  you 


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so  creditably  fulfill,  but  it  may  not  be,  and  I  must  add  my  enjoined  absence 
in  consequence  of  official  duty  as  another  trial  which  ai tends  the  career  of 
a  Bishop  far  removed  from  the  great  center  of  life  and  activity. 

Accept  please  for  yourself,  for  your  College,  and  the  Board  of  Regents 
which  you  represent  my  hearty  congratulations  for  the  success  which  has 
crowned  your  past  and  my  cordial  wishes  for  increased  and  uninterrupted 
success  on  all  lines  of  your  endeavor  for  the  future. 

With  sincere  respect,  faithfully  yours, 

George;  F.  Skymour. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Cairo. 

Dear  Sir:  I  much  regret  that  imperative  engagements  will  prevent 
my  acceptance  of  the  kind  invitation  of  the  President,  Trustees  of  Hobart 
College.  Geneva,  for  May  3d,  at  8:30  p.  M.,  at  Hobart  Hall,  Diocesan  House, 
New  York. 

With  best  wishes  for  Hobart  College,  and  trusting  that  the  Reunion, 
May  3d,  may  be  not  only  pleasant  (which  I  am  sure  it  will),  but  also  most 
helpful  to  the  cause  of  Church  Education,  and  greatly  regretting  that  I  can- 
not be  there,  I  remain.  Yours  faithfully, 

Chas.  R.  HAI.E. 


From,  the  Bishop  oj  Missouri, 

Dear  Sir  :  I  am  in  receipt  of  the  kind  invitation  from  the  President 
and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  for  the  evening  of  May  3. 

I  regret  that  duties  here  will  preclude  me  from  the  pleasure  of  accept- 
ance. 

May  the  three  score  and  ten  of  the  College  and  the  ten  of  the  President 
be  increased  and  lengthened  in  multos  annos. 

With  many  thanks,  I  am  faithfully  yours, 

Daniei.  T.  TuttIvE. 

From  the  Bishop  of  Vermont. 

Mr  Dkar  Dr.  Potter  :  I  thank  you  heartily  for  your  kind  invitation. 
And  I  am  sorry  that  it  is  impossible  for  me  to  be  with  you  on  the  third.  But 
I  have  engagements  in  the  diocese. 

Let  me  offer  my  sincere  congratulations  and  very  earnest  good  wishes  to 
Hobart  College  and  its  President. 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

Arthur  C.  A.  Hali.. 


From  the  His  hop  of  Massachusetts. 

Mv  Dear  Mr.  PrEvSident  :  I  regret  that  duties  here  will  prevent  me 
from  being  present  at  the  anniversary  on  May  3d.  May  I  offer  the  College 
and  yourself  hearty  congratulations  u])on  the  event  and  upon  the  useful 
work  that  the  College  under  your  presidency  is  doing. 

Yours  sincerely,  WiIvLiam  Lawrence. 


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From  the  Bishop  of  Pittsburgh. 

My  Dear  Rev.  Brother  :  Thank  you  very  much  for  your  kind  invi- 
tation to  attend  the  exercises  conne6led  with  the  anniversary  to  be  observed 
on  May  3d,  in  New  York.  I  regret  that  previous  engagements  will  prevent 
my  presence ;  but  you  need  no  assurance  from  me  of  the  most  cordial  inter- 
est in  the  occasion.  I  trust  that  your  fondest  hopes  with  regard  to  the 
Church  University  Board  of  Regents  will  be  realized  ;  and,  together  with 
my  congratulations  upon  your  decennial  anniversary  and  upon  the  progress 
which  has  attended  your  administration,  I  desire  to  offer  my  best  wishes  for 
the  future  of  Hobart.    Believe  me, 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

CoRTi^ANDT  Whitehead. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Georgia. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  It  gives  me  very  great  pleasure  to  acknowl- 
edge the  receipt  of  your  invitation  to  attend  the  commemoration  of  the 
seventieth  year  of  the  foundation  of  Hobart  College,  and  the  decade  of  your 
administration  ;  I  regret  exceedingl}^  that  my  dioscesan  duties  make  it  im- 
possible for  me  to  be  present  on  the  occasion.  In  lieu  of  the  personal 
expression  of  my  interest  I  beg  you  to  accept  the  written  hearty  assurance  of 
the  high  appreciation  in  which  I  hold  the  work  of  Hobart  College,  and  the 
wisdom  which  characterizes  your  administration.  The  attested  healthy  con- 
dition of  the  College,  its  increased  facilities,  and  the  friends  which  you  have 
won  for  it  ought  to  convince  all  who  read  or  enquire  that  Hobart  College 
fills  a  position  too  frequently  vacant. 

We  want  to-day  more  than  ever  before  Church  Colleges  which  can  prop- 
erly be  so  called,  not  such,  as  merely  have  a  Board  of  Trustees  who  are 
Churchmen  (but  without  any  direction  toward  the  Church)  and  too  often 
administered  as  though  we  were  ashamed  or  afraid  to  acknowledge  that  the 
Church  has  a  right  to  educate  her  sons  in  her  own  way,  and  through  them, 
laymen  as  well  as  clergymen,  to  preserve  the  continuity  of  Church  thought 
and  life. 

Wishing  you  still  greater  success  than  in  the  past,  I  am 

Faithfully  your  friend  and  brother, 

C.  K.  Nelson. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Delaware. 

Dear  Mr.  President  :  I  am  much  obliged  for  the  kind  and  valued 
invitation  for  the  evening  of  Ascension  Day^  and  wish  very  much  that  I 
could  avail  myself  of  it.  But  an  imperative  and  previous  engagement  else- 
where will  prevent  my  having  this  pleasure. 

It  will,  doubtless,  be  a  very  interesting  occasion.  You  know  how 
warmly  I  congratulate  you  upon  the  completion  of  your  ten  years'  efficient 
work  at  Hobart,  and  I  rejoice  to  know  of  the  College's  prosperity  and  useful- 
ness during  the  seventy  years  of  its  existence. 


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My  hearty  wishes  go  along  also  with  the  work  of  the  Church  University 
Board  of  Regents,  whose  recent  ventures  will,  I  trust,  be  crowned  with  the 
success  which  they  deserve.    With  renewed  thanks  and  regrets,  I  am  as  ever, 
Affectionately  yours, 

LKIGHTON  CoIvEman. 

From  the  Bishop  of  Texas. 

Rev.  and  Dear  Brother  :  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  attend 
the  proposed  meeting  of  Bishops  and  others  in  New  York  on  the  3d  prox. , 
but  my  appointments  will  not  permit  it.  Wishing  you  great  and  continued 
success  in  the  cause  of  Christian  education,  of  which  you  have  been  so 
earnest  a  champion.    I  am. 

Yours  sincerely,  J.  I.  Johnston. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Quincy. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  I  thank  warmly  the  Trustees  and  yourself  for 
holding  me  so  sufficiently  conspicuous  or  otherwise  fitted  for  invitation  to 
the  reception  in  New  York  the  evening  of  Ascension  Day.  I  have  already 
engaged  to  take  certain  duties  in  Jose,  because  of  the  absence  of  the  Bishop 
of  that  diocese,  and  these  will  forbid  my  presence.  I  have  followed  your 
class  from  before  18S9,  and  rejoiced  in  your  success,  not  at  Hobart  only  but 
rather  before  the  General  Convention  and  the  American  Church.  Our  Lord 
be  praised  for  your  life,  and  for  the  influence  of  your  talents  and  mind  and 
spirit  upon  Church  collegiate  interests  and  education.  May  the  administra- 
tion of  your  own  college  and  the  continued  success  of  your  advocacy  of  all, 
which  your  wonderful  report  to  the  General  Convention  of  1892  brings  mark 
them  yet  a  second  decade. 

Yours  gratefully  and  cordially, 

Alexr.  Burgess. 

From  the  Bishop  of  Indiana, 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  I  wish  it  were  in  my  power  to  be  with  you  on 
the  interesting  occasion  of  your  tenth  anniversary  as  President  of  Hobart 
College,  but  pressing  dioscesan  engagements  will  prevent.  With  all  my 
heart  I  join  with  your  many  friends  in  extending  congratulations.  At  Union 
College  and  at  Hobart  you  have  done  a  great  work  for  Christian  education. 
I  trust  it  is  but  the  prelude  to  still  greater  achievements  as  the  years  go  on. 
I  hope  the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents  of  which  you  have  been  the 
founder  may  do  much  to  impress  upon  the  whole  Church  the  importance  of 
the  generous  maintenance  of  its  schools  and  colleges,  of  dealing  generously 
in  their  equipment  and  endowment,  that  they  may  be  kept  up  to  the  level 
of  the  very  best.  This,  it  seems  to  me,  is  the  great  need  at  this  time  to 
move  wealthy  churchmen  to  endow  and  enlarge  the  capacity  of  our  existing 
institutions. 

Assuring  you  of  niy  high  regard  ane  wishing  for  you  every  blessing, 
vSinccrely  your  friend,  D.  B.  Knickerbacker. 


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The  noble  tribute  paid  when  Chancellor  of  the  College  by  Bishop 
Doane  as  chairman  of  the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents, 
and  by  Bishop  H.  C.  Potter  and  Bishop  Dudley  in  addresses  as 
Chancellors  and  otherwise^  and  the  tribute  paid  at  the  banquet,  in 
by  Bishop  McLaren,  together  with  the  commendations  and 
devout  aspirations  of  Bishop  Whipple  of  the  Board  of  Regents  and 
of  Bishop  Li ttlejohn,  years  since  elected  President  of  Hobart  Col- 
lege, and  of  Bishop  Huntington,  long  a  Trustee  of  the  College, 
are  seconded  by  helpful  congratulations  from  the  other  Bishops. 

In  addition  to  Alumni  of  Hobart  who  have  been  elected  to 
Bishoprics  without  accepting,  and  to  those  Bishops  who  are 
honorary  Alumni  of  Hobart  College,  the  following  Alumni  are 
found  in  the  Episcopal  Mst :  Bishops  Neely,  Paret,  Welles  (de- 
ceased), Worthington,  Brewer,  Graves,  Gilbert,  Wells,  Graves 
(China). 

It  may  be  of  interest  here  to  add  that  Bishop  Alonzo  Potter 
when  Professor  was  elected  the  first  President  of  Hobart  College, 
and  Bishop  Horatio  Potter  when  Professor  was  some  years  later 
elected  to  the  Presidency,  and  both  hoped  for  a  time  to  accept. 
Bishop  Henry  C.  Potter  is  a  Visitor  and  Chancellor  of  Hobart. 
President  Potter  entered  upon  Collegiate  and  Universit}^  educa- 
tional work  in  connection  with  his  first  charge,  consisting  of 
parishes  and  missions  centering  at  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania. 
Judge  Packer,  though  not  a  resident,  an  honored  vestryman  of 
the  Church  there,  founding  the  Lehigh  University,  Dr.  Potter 
was  elected  first  Professor  and  accepted,  cdntinuing  his  clerical 
duties.  Thereafter  he  became  President  of  his  Alma  Mater, 
useful  preparation  for  his  duties  as  Advocate-Regent  of  the 
Church  University  Board,  and  President  of  Hobart  College. 


From  the  Rector  of  the  DeLancey  Divinity  School  and  St.  Peter's  Church. 

My  Dkar  Sir:  Though  I  cannot  be  present  at  the  proposed  Hobart 
Reception  in  New  York  on  the  3d  of  June,  I  desire  to  gladly  add  my  testi- 
mony on  this  notable  occasion.  As  of  an  eye  witness  accept  my  hearty  con- 
gratulations to  all  concerned  upon  the  marked  success  of  President  Potter's 
ten  years'  administration  of  that  College.  As  Rector  of  the  DeLancey 
Divinity  School  and  Dean  of  the  Deanery  of  Geneva  for  all  that  time  I  wish 
to  testify  also  to  his  ever  ready  and  able  cooperation  in  making  the  College 
minister  effectively — as  it  ought  to  do— to  theological  education  and  church 


work  in  this  Diocese  (Western  New  York)  and  beyond  it ;  and  for  the  wardens 
and  vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  church,  Geneva,  I  am  desired  in  their  behalf  to 
add  their  declaration  of  their  most  grateful  appreciation  of  Dr.  Potter's  many 
considerate  and  helpful  acts  of  kindness  to  their  Rector  and  parish,  making 
the  Institution  over  which  he  so  ably  presides  dear  to  the  hearts  of  the  pupils 
as  well  as  beneficial  to  their  heads.  With  all  best  wishes  for  Hobart's  glor- 
ious future,  Very  sincerely,  James  Rankine, 

Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Sir  :  The  kind  invitation  of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  Col- 
lege, asking  the  Rector,  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the  Church  of  the  Na- 
tivity, South  Bethlehem,  Penna.,  to  meet  representatives  of  the  Faculty  and 
Alumni  of  Hobart  College,  the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents,  the 
Bishop  of  New  York,  and  the  Bishop  of  the  Church  in  the  United  States,  in 
Hobart  Hall,  New  York,  May  third,  at  half  past  eight  o'clock  in  the  even- 
ing, was  duly  received  and  presented  to  the  Ve^ey  at  a  special  meeting  called 
for  that  purpose  yesterday. 

On  motion  the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  : — 

Resolved,  That  the  Rector,  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the  Church  of 
the  Nativity,  South  Bethlehem,  Penna.,  accept  with  sincere  pleasure  the  in- 
vitation of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  'to  attend  the  Hobart 
reception  in  New  York  on  the  third  of  May. 

Resolved^  That  we  keep  in  constant  remembrance  the  efficient  and 
excellent  work  done  by  the  Reverend  Doctor  Potter  while  among  us  when 
he  was  our  first  Rector  and  our  Church  his  first  pastoral  charge. 

Resolved,  That  we  send  him  our  hearty  and  affectionate  God-speed  in 
his  present  labors,  and  wish  him  great  prosperity. 

Resolved^  That  these  our  greetings  be  presented  to  him  by  a  committee 
consisting  of  the  Rector,  The  Reverend  Gilbert  H.  Sterling,  Doctor  Henry 
Coppee,  Warden,  and  Mr.  A.  N.  Cleaver,  Vestryman. 

Robert  P.  Linderman,  Secretary. 

From  Rev,  Dr.  H.  R,  Lockzvood^  Hobart  Alumnus  and  Trustee. 

I  am  delighted  to  see  that  there  is  to  be  a  fitting  celebration  of  the 
seventieth  anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  the  college  and  the  tenth  of  Dr. 
Potter's  Presidency.  The  occasion  will  be  so  enjoyable  and  it  would  be  in 
every  way  so  good  to  be  there  that  I  foresee  with  great  regret  my  inability  to 
participate  in  it. 

I  hope  it  may  give  a  grand  impetus  to  the  increasing  prosperity  of  our 
college. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Sir:  Your  kind  notice  and  invitation  to  me  to  be  present  is 
thankfully  received.  It  would  be  one  of  the  greatest  enjoyments  of  life 
could  I  be  with  you  at  the  meeting  of  the  representatives  of  the  Faculty  and 
Alumni  of  Hobart  College  ;  but  I  shall  have  to  deny  myself  that  great 
pleasnre.  My  spirit  will  be  with  you,  for  my  warmest  desires  are  for  the 
prosperity  of  my  Alma  Mater  under  whose  fostering  care  I  spent  four  years 
as  among  the  happiest  days  of  my  life,  between  the  years  of  1838  and  1842. 

Truly  yours,      G.  M.  Skinner, 

Detroit,  Mich. 


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My  Dear  President  Potter  : 

It  was  with  great  pleasure  that  I  received  the  invitation  of  the  President 
and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  for  the  3d  of  May  next.  I  wish  it  were 
possible  for  me  to  accept  the  same  and  be  present  with  the  friends  of  Ho- 
bart and  education  on  the  evening  of  that  day.  I  regret  that  I  have  made 
engagements  w^hich  will  detain  me  here. 

Permit  me  to  tender  to  you  my  congratulations  upon  the  decennial  an- 
niversary of  your  election  to  the  presidency  of  dear  old  Hobart ;  and  to  the 
Trustees  I  tender  my  sincere  congratulations  that  Hobart,  through  you, 
stands  so  thoroughly  for  the  Christian  education  of  the  youth  of  the  Church 
and  State.  I  shall  never  forget  the  happy  year  I  passed  in  Geneva  and  the 
kindnesses  of  my  many  friends  in  and  out  of  the  college.  I  esteem  it  one 
of  the  greatest  honors,  as  well  as  one  of  the  greatest  pleasures  of  my  life 
that  my  name  once  appeared  under  the  list  of  the  Faculty  of  Hobart.  Truly 
I  am  one  of  her  sons  w^ho.m  she  has  honored  with  a  degree.  Some  day  I 
hope  I  may  be  so  situated  that  I  may  be  able  to  show  my  regard  by  acts  done, 
rather  than  by  words  spoken. 

Please  extend  to  all  my  hearty  congratulations  upon  the  events  you  will 
celebrate,  together  with  my  regrets  that  I  am  not  able  to  celebrate  them 
with  you,  and  believe  me  to  be,  as  ever,  your  and  Hobart's  friend  and  well- 
wisher.  VVlIvLIAM  PraIvI., 

St.  John's  Rectory,  Detroit,  Mich. 


DrCAR  Sir  :  I  am  in  receipt  of  an  invitation  to  meet  representatives  of 
the  Faculty,  Alumni  and  others  of  Hobart  College,  in  Hobart  Hall,  29 
Lafayette  Place,  on  May  3d,  1894,  the  seventieth  anniversary  of  the  found- 
ation of  the  college.  I  am  in  cordial  sympathy  with  the  purposes  of  the 
gathering  and  distance  alone  will  prevent  my  being  present. 

I  note  with  great  pleasure  the  growth  and  prosperty  of  dear  old  Hobart 
under  the  efficient  administration  of  President  Potter,  and  sincerely  hope 
that  the  proposed  meeting  of  officials  and  friends  of  the  college  will  be  pro- 
ductive of  increased  interest'  in  its  welfare,  as  I  am  sure  it  well  be  an  occa- 
sion of  much  pleasure  and  enthusiasm. 

Faithfully  yours,  GEO.  H.  Corne:i.i<, 

St.  Thomas  Church,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

Dear  Sir  :  I  much  regret  that  my  duties  here  prevent  the  acceptance 
of  your  kind  invitation  to  be  present  May  3,  at  the  Reception  to  be  given 
by  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  their  distinguished 
guests  interested  in  "  Church  Collegiate  Education." 

I  avail  myself  of  the  occasion  to  offer  my  hearty  congratulations  to 
President  Potter  on  the  growth  of  the  College  and  the  prominent  part  he  has 
taken  in  promoting  the  cause  of  the  higher  education  in  the  Church  and  the 
country.  Sincerel}^  yours, 

A.  Dai^ton, 

Portland,  Maine. 


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Dear  Sir  :  I  have  received  with  sincere  pleasure  your  kind  invitation 
to  be  present  at  the  reception  given  by  the  Faculty  and  Alumni  of  Hobart 
College  and  others  at  Hobart  Hall,  Diocesan  House,  New  York,  May  3d  in  the 
evening.  I  regret  very  much  that  I  am  not  able  to  do  more  than  thank  you 
for  your  courtesy. 

Many  years  have  passed  since  the  President  of  Hobart  College  and  my- 
self, had  the  same  preceptor,  and  attended  the  same  school.  I  know  no  one 
who  had  Church  Collegiate  Education  more  at  heart  than  the  late  Rev.  Dr. 
George  K.  Hare;  and  to  him  with  the  great  Bishop  Alonzo  Potter,  from 
whom  I  received  Holy  Orders,  I  owe  almost  everything  in  the  way  of 
training  for  the  ministry.  Most  sincerely, 

John  K.  Murphy, 

Germantown,  Pa. 


Dear  Sir  :  In  reply  to  your  kind  card  for  JMay  3d,  I  am  sorry  to  say 
that  previous  engagement  has  claimed  me  for  that  evening. 

As  an  English  graduate,  like  most  Oxonians,  I  am  ardently  desirous  to 
see  University  facilities  amplified  and  encouraged  to  meet  the  highest  poss- 
ible demand  and  development  of  our  day.  In  this  direction  Hobart  can 
certainly  be  congratulated  as  a  live  College,  expanding  in  the  faithful  dis- 
charge of  its  obligations  and  vigorous  to  increase  its  usefulness  as  every 
opportunity  permits.  I  believe  also  that  the  need  of  definite  Church  princi- 
ples is  profoundly  needed  in  the  collegiate  curriculum  of  to-day,  for  speak- 
ing on  this  point  to  a  young  fellow  who  has  not  long  left  one  of  the  secular 
universities  he  said  "  Graduates  mostly  are  only  educated  heathens."  I 
wish  you  a  joyous  meeting  and  successful  too,  and  prosperity  to  Hobart 
from  the  President  dow^n.  Yours  most  sincerely, 

J.  Franklin  Love, 
Trinity  Rectory,  Vincentown,  N.  J. 


Dear  Sir  :  In  response  to  the  invitation,  on  the  part  of  the  President 
and  Ti  ustees  of  Hobart  College,  to  be  present  at  a  reception  to  be  held  in 
Hobart  Hall,  Diocesan  House,  New  York,  on  the  evening  of  May  3d,  I 
desire  to  convey  to  them,  through  you,  my  grateful  appreciation  of  the 
honor  conferred  on  me  by  such  an  invitation,  and  my  cordial  sympathy 
with  the  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  extension  of  Church  Collegiate  Education 
implied  in  the  approaching  representative  , gathering  of  distinguished 
Churchmen.  Hobart  stands  well  to  the  fore  among  Church  Colleges,  both 
for  good  work  accomplished,  and  for  the  number  of  illustrious  men  counted 
among  her  Alumni. 

I  beg  to  do  myself  the  pleasure  of  accepting  the  invitation,  though  I 
am  by  no  means  sure  that  I  shall  be  able  to  get  away  from  my  manifold 
duties  on  the  3(1  of  May.    But  I  shall  try  to  do  so. 

I  am,  very  faithfully  yours,       Frp:d  C.  Cowper, 

Philipsburg,  Pa. 


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Genti^emen  :  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  accept  your  kind 
invitation  for  May  3  in  Hobart  Hall,  N.  Y.  City,  did  circumstances  permit 
absence  from  my  field  at  this  time.  My  duties  as  a  general  missionary  of 
the  Diocese  of  West  Michigan,  at  all  times  exacting,  are  at  this  season  of 
the  Church  year  especially  pressing.  I  can  therefore  only  assure  you  of  my 
high  appreciation  of  the  value  and  necessit}^  of  Church  Collegiate  Education, 
and  hearty  sympathy  with  all  efforts  in  that  direction. 

The  Church  University  Board  I  regard  as  one  of  the  most  promising 
instrumentalities  in  the  line  of  Church  progress  which  the  General  Conven- 
tion has  inaugurated.  Already  the  Board  has  justified  its  creation,  and  in 
no  long  time,  I  am  confident  its  influence  for  good  will  be  most  deeply  and 
widely  felt. 

Congratulating  you  on  your  thoughtfulness  in  seizing  this  occasion,  I 
trust  your  reunion  will  prove  most  happy  and  beneficial. 

Very  respectfully  yours,         Joseph  W.  Bancroft, 

Hastings,  Mich. 

Dear  Sir  :  It  will  hardly  be  in  my  power  to  accept  your  invitation  for 
the  3d  prox.  I  do  very  much  desire  to  say  that  I  believe  in  the  President,  of 
illustrious  name,  exceptional  worth  and  distinguished  service,  who  is  Ho- 
bart's  head  ;  in  the  cause  of  distinctive  Church  education,  and  the  future 
there  must  be  for  it.  I  hope  to  come  to  Geneva  at  no  distant  day,  with  a 
view  to  inspect.  If  fairly  blessed,  I  mean  to  leav^  a  modest  check  behind 
me.  Very  truly  yours,  Howard  F.  H11.1., 

  Concord,  N.  H. 

GEIST1.EMEN  :  I  highly  appreciate  the  honor  of  your  invitation  to  meet 
the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents  and  the  Bishops,  on  the  evening  of 
Ascension  Day,  and  would  be  very  happy  to  accept  it.  But  engagements 
already  made  and  which  cannot  be  now  changed,  will  deprive  me  of  that 
pleasure. 

The  creation  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  and  their  judicious  beginnings  of 
a  great  service  to  the  cause  of  Collegiate  education  on  Churchly  lines,  give 
promise  of  better  things,  in  the  near  future,  for  our  Church  and  country. 

I  shall  continue  to  observe  with  deep  interest  every  advance  that  may 
be  made  in  the  same  direction. 

Very  sincerely  yours,  Er^viN  K.  Smith, 

Ivambertville,  N.  J. 

My  Dear  President  Potter  :  I  am  sorry  that  absence  from  the  city 
on  the  evening  of  May  3d  will  prevent  me  from  attending  the  reception  to 
be  given  at  the  Diocesan  House  at  that  time  by  the  Curators  and  Trustees  of 
Hobart  College.  I  am  glad,  however,  to  add  my  felicitations  to  those  of 
your  many  friends,  and  to  wish  both  for  yourself  and  the  college  an  always 
increasing  prosperity.  Alwa3's  with  kind  regards,  I  am,  my  dear  Mr.  Presi- 
dent, Yours  faithfully,  SeTh  Low, 

President  Columbia  College* 


My  Dear  Sir  :  I  am  sorry  to  say  that  distance  and  duties  will  prevent 
me  from  being  present  at  the  reception  to  be  given  in  New  York,  on  the 
third  of  May,  to  which  you  have  been  so  kind  as  to  invite  me  ;  and  I  beg 
leave  to  offer  my  congratulations  on  the  decennial  as  well  as  on  the  septua- 
gesimal  anniversary.    I  am,  dear  sir. 

Very  truly  yours, 

D.  C.  Oilman, 
President  Johns  Hopkins  University. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  have  received  with  pleasure  and  read  with  much  interest 
your  in\itation  with  accompanying  statement  concerning  the  opportunit}- 
kindly  offered  for  meeting  members  of  the  Faculty  and  Alumni  of  Hobart 
College,  with  others,  in  the  evening  of  Ascension  Day  next. 

I  have  communicated  the  invitation  and  your  valuable  statement  to  the 
wardens  and  vestry  of  Harcourt  Parish  here.  They  ask  me  to  join  with 
mine  their  acknowledgment  of  your  courtesy  and  to  express  the  gratification 
which  they  feel,  and  in  which  I  heartily  concur,  in  the  prosperity  of  Hobart 
College  and  in  the  success  which  has  justly  followed  the  vigorous  efforts  of 
its  honored  President  in  his  advocacy  of  the  Church  University  Board  of 
Regents.  I  am  sorry  that  I  cannot  have  the  personal  pleasure  of  accepting 
your  invitation.  But  I  am  able  to  say  that  Mr.  H.  N.  Hills  our  senior 
warden,  who  is  also  one  of  the  Regents  of  the  schools  here,  will  probably  be 
in  attendance  and  will  send  his  personal  acceptance.    With  great  respect 

I  am,  sincerely  yours, 

H.  M.  Densi^ow, 
Chaplain  of  Kenyon  College  and  Rector  of  Harcourt  Parish. 


President  and  TrusteEvS  of  Hobart  Coi<i.ege  :  I  regret  my  inabil- 
ity to  accept  your  courteous  invitation  for  the  third  of  May.  May  I  add  the 
wish  that  the  occasion  may  prove  worthy  of  the  past  that  calls  it  forth,  and 
aid  in  opening  up  a  yet  more  efficient  and  distinguished  future  both  for  the 
college  and  its  honored  President.  Very  truly, 

P.  H.  Steenstra, 
Episcopal  Theological  School,  Cambridge,  Mass. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  J.  H.  Coit  regrets  that  he  is  unable  to  accept  the  invitation 
of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College.  He  begs  to  send  his 
hearty  congratulations  on  the  prosperity  of  Hobart  College  and  to  express 
his  warm  interest  in  the  advancement  of  Christian  Education  which  has 
been  so  largely  stimulated  by  the  plans  and  clTorts  of  the  Church  University 
Board. 

St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 


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Dkar  Sir  :  I  atn  greatly  indebted  to  you  for  your  kind  invitation  that 
has  just  reached  me. 

I  regret  exceedingly  to  have  to  write  you  that  it  will  be  impossible  for 
me  to  be  absent  from  Gambier  on  the  third  of  next  month. 
Hoping  that  the  meeting  may  Vje  a  great  success,  I  am, 

Yours  faithfully,  Lawrence  Rust, 

Regent  Kenyon  Military  Academy. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  regret  that  distance  will  prevent  me  from  accepting  the 
kind  invitation  of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  for  May  3. 

Not  only  my  interest  in  the  educational  work  of  the  Church,  but  also 
more  personal  reasons,  lead  me  to  rejoice  in  the  prosperity  of  Hobart  May 
her  threescore  years  and  ten  be  but  the  infancy  of  a  long  life  of  usefulness 
and  power.  And  may  her  present  head  be  long  spared  to  carry  on  the  work 
of  which  the  past  ten  years  give  such  nob'e  promise. 

Yours  faithfully,  A1.1.AN  L.  Burleson, 

Rector  of  West  Texas  Military  Academy. 


Dear  Sir  :  It  is  with  deep  regret  that  I  am  obliged  to  decline  the  very 
kind  invitation  of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  meet  the 
Faculty,  Alumni  and  others  on  May  3d.  Unfortunately  the  duties  connected 
with  King  Hall  at  that  time  will  be  so  imperative  that  it  will  be  impossi- 
ble for  me  to  leave. 

Praying  God's  blessing  on  all  Church  educational  interests  and  espec- 
ially upon  Hobart — for  which  I  entertain  the  deepest  regard,  believe  me, 
Yours  very  truly,  W11.1.IAM.  V.  Tunneli., 

''King  Hall,"  Washington,  D.  C. 


From  the  Ma^iager  of  the  Young  Churehman  Co. 

Mr.  L.  H.  Morehouse  acknowledges  with  thanks  the  invitation  of  the 
President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  the  reception  to  be  held  in 
Hobart  Hall,  on  May  3d  ;  and  greatly  regrets  his  inability  to  be  present  at 
that  time.  Most  cordial  greetings  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Potter,  who  has  done  so 
much  to  raise  the  standard  of  Collegiate  Education  in  our  Church  institutions. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 


To  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobm^t  College. 

Genti^Emen  :  It  is  with  much  regret  that  I  find  myself  compelled  to 
decline  your  kind  invitation  for  the  3d  of  May  next. 

To  meet  so  many  eminent  Bishops,  Priests  and  Laymen,  to  join  with 


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them  in  congratulations  up^n  the  growth  of  Hobart  College,  and  to  take 
part  in  noting  the  success  of  its  President,  both  there  and  other  and 
broader  fields  of  church  educational  work,  would  be  a  great  pleasure. 
But  the  day  named  for  the  meeting  is  almost  simultaneous  with  the  close  of 
the  work  of  the  Supreme  Court  at  this  Term  where  imperative  duties  detain 
me  in  Washington. 

Thanking  you  for  your  kindness  in  remembering  me  on  this  interesting 
occasion  I  am,  gentlemen.  Very  sincerely  yours, 

J.  C,  Bancroft  Davis, 

Washington,  D.  C. 


As  a  Curator  of  Hobart,  Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  writes  that  he  is  glad 
to  see  President  Potter's  successful  administratton  so  well  appreciated  by  his 
associates,  and  that  he  takes  pleasure  in  adding  his  congratulations  to  those 
of  the  faculty  and  in  wishing  the  president  continued  progress  in  all  his 
uodertakings. 

New  York. 


My  Dkar  Sir  :  I  write  to  return  my  thanks  to  the  President  and  Trus- 
tees of  Hobart  College  for  their  very  kind  invitation  to  the  reception  in  New 
York  on  May  3d.  I  greatly  regret  that  my  engagements  will  not  permit  me 
to  accept.  I  congratulate  the  college  and  its  able  President  upon  its  pro- 
gress and  prosperity,  and  trust  that  the  occasion  may  serve  to  impress  upon 
the  minds  of  Churchmen  the  advantage  and  duty  of  supporting  more  gen- 
erously the  educational  institutions  of  the  Church. 

Very  truly  yours,  John  H.  STIness, 

Associate  Justice  Supreme  Court,  Rhode  Island. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  beg  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  the  invitation  to  meet  the 
Faculty  and  Alumni  of  Hobart  College  on  May  3^  1894,  and  I  sincerely  regret 
that  imperative  engagements  in  Court  on  that  day  compel  me  to  decline. 

The  occasion  will  doubtless  be  one  of  great  interest  and  I  appreciate  the 
courtesy  which  includes  me  as  a  member  of  the  vestry  of  the  old  parish 
among  the  invited  guests.  Very  truly  yours, 

James  A.  Pearce, 

Chestertown,  Md. 


Genti^emen  :  I  beg  to  thank  you  for  the  invitation  to  be  present  at  the 
meeting  to  be  held  in  New  York,  May  3d. 

I  regret  that  I  cannot  be  present.  I  am  sure  that  all  Churchmen  recog- 
nize with  satisfaction  the  stronger  position  which  our  Church  Colleges  are 
taking  in  our  American  life. 

With  great  respect,  I  remain.  Yours  very  truly, 

John  Thomas, 

Cleveland,  O. 


2[ 


My  Dear  Dr.  Pottkr  :  I  congratulate  you  on  your  tenth  year  of 
service  as  President  of  Hobart,  and  accept  with  great  pleasure  the  kind  invi- 
tation for  the  third  of  May,  with  which  I  am  favored,  to  attend  a  commem- 
oration of  that  event,  and  the  founding  of  the  college. 

I  have  been  gratified  to  watch  the  course  of  your  administration  and  to 
observe  the  improvements  of  the  material  and  educational  interests  of  the 
college,  and  trust  that  every  blessing  may  attend  you  and  it  for  these 
many,  many  years  to  come.  Yours  very  trul}^ 

B.  Brune;i.i., 

New  York. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  regret  that  the  state  of  my  health  will  not  permit  me  to 
accept  the  invitation  of  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  be 
present  at  their  reception  May  3d,  in  New  York. 

Yours  truly,  "     Benjamin  Hai,k. 

A  similar  letter  is  received  from  Mr.  Thomas  Hale,  also  a  son  of 
the  late  President  Hale,  of  honored  and  beloved  memory. 


My  Dear  Sir  :  Please  accept  my  thanks  for  the  courteous  invitation 
from  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  attend  the  reception 
at  the  Diocesan  House,  New  York  City,  on  the  evening  of  Ascension  Day, 
May  3d. 

It  is  fitting  to  commemorate  the  earnest  work  of  its  founders.  The  saintly 
and  energetic  Bishop  Hobart,  the  pioneer  missionary,  David  Clark,  and 
those  who  shaped  the  policy  and  made  Geneva  College,  then  in  the  far  West, 
a  power  for  the  promotion  of  sound  learning  and  Christian  truth,  cannot  be 
forgotten.  The  days  of  its  age  are  three  score  years  and  ten,  but  not  like 
those  of  man  are  the  days  of  a  college.  Its  past  renown,  its  able  presidents, 
like  Hale  and  Jackson,  in  this  period  of  its  fullest  vigor  find  in  the  scholarly 
President  of  1894  a  fitting  successor.  May  his  incumbency  long  be  con- 
tinued to  reflect  honor  upon  Hobart  and  the  Church. 

I  regret  that  owing  to  positive  engagements  I  cannot  share  in  the  con- 
gratulations and  personal  greeting  to  Dr.  Potter  upon  his  entrance  into 
another  decade  of  service.    Be  pleased  to  present  him  my  sincere  and  hearty 
good  wishes  upon  this  auspicious  day  ;  and  believe  me,  with  kind  regards. 
Very  truly  yours,  Joseph  Hooper, 

Burham  Centre,  Conn. 


Dear  Sir  :  The  Faculty  of  the  Theological  Seminary  acknowledge 
with  sincere  appreciation  the  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  70th  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  Hobart  College,  and  the  commemoration  of  the  loth 
decade  of  President  Potter's  administration.  They  feel  a  deep  interest  in 
the  progress  of  collegiate  education,  and  in  the  prosperity  of  Hobart  College. 


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They  congratulate  the  College  and  President  Potter  on  the  prosperity  with 
which  God  has  visited  them,  and  crowned  their  labors.  It  is  a  matter  of 
regret  that  the  demands  of  the  class  room  at  this  season  make  it  impossible 
for  them  to  send  a  delegate  to  express  their  good  wishes,  and  to  participate 
in  your  rejoicings.  C.  Wai^ker, 

Secretary  Theological  Seminary^  Va. 


From  the  chairman  of  Union's  Centennial  Committee  on  Com- 
memorative Exercises  and  from  the  chairman  of  the  corporation 
of  Union  College  and  Governor  of  Union  University,  President 
Potter  has  received  renewed  assurances  of  appreciation  of  his 
services  to  that  Institution  and  in  his  present  position  together 
with  best  wishes  for  the  prosperity  of  Hobart  College. 

An  alumnus  of  Hobart  College,  thrice  elected  to  the  Episco- 
pate, President  Smith  of  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  writes  of  the 
extended  tour,  from  which  he  has  just  returned,  that  upon  sum- 
ming up  his  experiences  nothing  is  more  satisfactory  than  the 
impression  made  by  Hobart  College,  under  this  Presidency,  and 
that  the  College  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  administration  ; 
the  President  being  entitled  to  all  praise  from  the  friends  of  the 
church  education,  for  his  courage  and  perseverance  in  a  most  try- 
ing work.  He  adds.  "  Probably  I  know  as  well  as  the  next  man, 
the  difficulties  and  discouragements  of  his  undertaking,  and  I  sin- 
cerely thank  him  for  sticking  to  his  post  and  conquering  suc- 
cess ;  although  my  engagements  forbid  my  presence  next  Thurs- 
day night  in  New  York,  my  interest  in  the  occasion  will  not  be 
less  and  I  bid  you  all  God  speed." 


THE  EXERCISES  OF  THE  EVENING  OF  MAY  3. 

It  has  not  been  found  practicable  to  secure  verbatim  reports 
of  the  addresses  made  at  the  Reception ;  and  this  pamphlet  is 
necessarily  inadequate  and  incomplete.  The  following  graphic 
account  is  from  the  columns  of  The  Chicrchma7i  : 

1824-1894.  Hobart  Coixkgk.  1884-1894. 

The  seventieth  anniversary  01  the  founding  of  Hol)art  College,  and  the 
tenth  anniversary  of  President  Potter's  administration,  were  celebrated  on 
the  evening  of  AscensioniDay,  May  3,  by  a  reception  to  President  Potter,  the 


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trustees,  the  faculty  and  the  alumni  of  the  college,  as  well  as  to  those  inter- 
ested in  Church  Collegiate  education,  including,  in  an  especial  way,  the 
Church  University  Board  of  Regents. 

The  invitations  were  issued  in  the  name  of  Clarance  A.  Seward,  Esq., 
president  of  the  alumni.  Hobart  Hall,  See  House,  one  of  the  finest  rooms 
in  New  York  cit}^,  received  on  this  occasion  more  than  200  guests. 

Among  those  present  were  Bishop  Potter,  of  New  York  ;  Dean  Hoffman, 
of  the  General  Theological  Seminary  ;  also  President  Hastings  of  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary  ;  President  Stirling,  of  Kenyon  College  ;  and  Warden 
Fairbairn,  of  St.  Stephen's  College;  Profs.  Nash  and  Vail,  of  Hobart ;  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Chas.  F.  Hoffman,  vice-chancellor  of  the  college  ;  the  Rev.  Drs. 
Greer,  Huntington,  J.  W.  Brown,  Matson,  and  Wm.  M.  Hughes,  acting  gen- 
eral secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  as  well  as  other  well-known  clergy 
and  laity  of  the  Church. 

One  pleasant  feature  of  the  gathering,  was  the  large  number  present  of 
the  younger  alumni  of  the  college. 

After  an  informal  reception,  the  various  representatives  of  the  different 
educational  institutions  were  given  official  seats,  and  the  meeting  was  organ- 
ized by  Mr.  John  McDonald,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  upon  whose 
motion  the  Rev.  Vice-Chancellor  Hoffman  was  chosen  to  pres  de. 

The  vice-chancellor,  in  a  few  felicitous  words,  congratulated  the  college 
and  its  president  upon  the  steady  and  harmonious  progress  which  Hobart, 
after  many  ups  and  downs,  had  shown  during  the  past  ten  years,  and  called 
upon  President  Potter,  who  was  most  cordially  welcomed,  to  advocate  its 
cause. 

President  Potter  contented  himself,  however,  with  referring  to  a  printed 
pamphlet  which  was  distributed,  as  his  excuse  for  passing  over  all  personal 
allusions,  and  feelingly  emphasized  the  necessity  for  a  co-ordination  of  all 
the  educational  interests  of  the  Church,  making  special  allusion  to  the  Church 
University  Board  of  Regents.  The  pamphlet  referred  to  contained  ( from 
among  hundreds,  not  yet  printed)  letters  from  a  large  number  of  the  bishops, 
from  Presidents  Smith,  of  Trinity;  Low,  of  Columbia;  and  Giiman,  of 
Johns  Hopkins,  and  from  many  others  ;  all  alike  exhibiting  an  awakening 
interest  and  increasing  hopefulness,  in  respect  of  the  educational  interests  of 
the  Church.  It  also,  in  a  resolution  adopted  by  the  faculty  during  President 
Potter's  absence,  gave  evidence  of  sufficient  cause  wh}^  Hobart  should  look 
back  upon  the  past  ten  years  with  satisfaction,  and  forward  to  the  coming 
ten  years  with  confidence. 

At  the  close  of  President  Potter's  remarks,  President  Stirling,  of  Kenyon 
College,  Gambler,  O.,  was  introduced  as  an  alumnus  of  Hobart.  % 

President  Stirling  spoke  upon  the  problems  which  faced  the  Church  in 
its  educational  responsibilities  in  the  great  Middle  West.  So  far  as  the  minor 
schools  were  concerned,  much  was  accomplishing,  but  it  was  rather  startling 
to  learn  that,  out  of  many  attempts  to  establish  collegiate  institutions,  Ken- 
yon was  the  sole  survival  north  of  the  Ohio  river,  between  the  Rocky  moun- 
tains and  the  great  lakes.    Instead  of  educating  less  than  two  hundred  young 


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men  in  this  region,  the  Church,  if  it  were  well  equipped,  should  be  drawing 
from  one  hundred  thousand.  He  was  not  pleading  for  Kenyon's  survival. 
That  was  assured.  Indeed,  its  work,  with  the  exception  of  the  period  just 
preceding  the  war,  was  never  more  prosperous.  He  was  pleading  for  enlarged 
facilities  to  meet  enormously  expanding  opportunities. 

President  Hastings,  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  followed  Presi- 
dent Stirling  with  playful  and  graceful  allusion  to  his  memories  of  Geneva 
College,  before  it  took  its  more  churchly  name  of  Hobart.  He  also  put  in  a 
timely  and  effective  claim  for  the  splendid  services  of  the  small  colleges. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Greer,  when  called  up  in  behalf  of  the  Church  University 
Board  of  Regents,  stated  that  in  his  opinion,  a  new  era  was  dawning  upon 
the  work  of  the  Church,  in  that  the  life  of  the  Church,  as  a  whole,  was  begin- 
ning to  make  its  importance  felt  as  never  before.  Diocesanism  and  parochi- 
alism had  done  great  things,  because  of  the  concentration  of  efforts  within 
especial  centres.  But  the  Church  was  now  beginning  to  see,  as  never  before, 
the  truth  that  the  whole  is  greater  than  any  part.  In  one  field,  diocesanism 
had  clearly  failed — in  the  field  of  higher  education.  The  Church  had  great 
grace  and  really  great  common  sense,  but  another  potent  factor  in  effective 
work  it  sadly  lacked  as  a  whole — great  learning.  The  splendid  example  of 
the  English  Church  had  been  apparently  lost  upon  us.  It  was,  then,  to  this 
especial  feature  that  the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents,  coming  down 
out  of  the  region  of  rather  vague  sentiment,  had  concluded  to  devote  itself 
at  the  beginning.  Dr.  Greer  maintained  also,  that  the  whole  nation,  not 
alone  the  Church,  needed  the  greatest  leiarning.  Not  very  much  had  been 
done,  and  yet,  in  one  sense,  much  had  been  gained  in  offering,  as  the  board 
had  done,  perhaps  the  most  valuable  scholarships  in  the  country  to  members 
of  the  graduating  classes  of  our  theological  schools  and  seminaries. 

President  Potter  closed  the  interesting  speeches  of  the  evening  with  a 
hearty  commendation  of  the  smaller  colleges,  and  especially  of  those  with 
definite  religious  influence.  He  called  attention  to  the  fact  that,  in  his  opin- 
ion, one  of  the  underlying  causes  of  the  prevalent  disturbances  in  almost  all 
of  the  formerly  stable  institutions  of  our  social  order,  is  to  be  found  in  the 
nebulous  and  illusive  religious  instruction  given  in  large  institutions,  which 
rather  prided  themselves  upon  their  emancipation,  as  they  would  term  it, 
from  all  positive  and  definite  religious  instruction.  Learning  is  essential, 
but  more  essential  is  that  righteousness  which  exalts  a  nation.  Such  right- 
eousness is  founded  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  Living  God. 
The  nation  which  does  not  in  the  end  base  its  education  of  the  whole  man 
upon  that  foundation  is  inviting  its  own  ruin. 

At  tjie  close  of  the  proceedings,  refreshments  were  served  in  adjoining 
rooms,  and  President  Potter  received  the  guests  of  the  evening.  It  was  felt 
that  this  very  gathering  was,  in  fact,  another  evidence  of  the  aroused  atten- 
tion of  the  Church  in  regard  of  its  educational  work  as  a  whole,  as  well  as  a 
genial  and  successful  tribute  to  Hobart's  past,  present  and  future.  More  than 
a  thousand  communications  were  received  in  connection  with  it. 


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ADDITIONAL  LKT^TERS. 

From  many  letters  received  since  the, first  edition  of  this  pamph- 
let, this  further  publication  is  permitted. 

From  the  Bishop  of  Minnesota. 

My  Dear  Brother  :  I  owe  you  an  apology  for  the  delay  in  acknow  1 
edging  your  kind  invitation.  I  have  just  reached  home  and  since  leaving 
New  York  the  i6th,  have  been  so  constantly  on  the  move  that  my  letters 
have  been  held  here.  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  with  you  in 
New  York  the  3d  of  May,  but  my  dioscesan  duties  make  it  impossible. 

I  claim  to  be  a  son  of  Hobart  by  adoption  in  the  days  of  dear  Bishop 
DeLancey,  and  Hobart  has  always  had  a  warm  place  in  my  heart. 

1  am  rejoiced  to  hear  of  its  present  prosperity  and  trust  that  it  has  before 
it  long  years  of  increased  usefulness. 

With  much  love, 

H.  B.  WHIPPI.E. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Montana^  Alumnus  of  Hobart : 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter:  Your  letter  reaches  me  in  a  mining  camp, 
and  I  have  only  time  to  say  that  I  never  lose  my  interest  in  or  affection  for 
my  Alma  Mater.  I  am  glad  to  know  that  she  makes  progress  toward  better 
things.  What  she  needs  is  one  or  two  millions  of  dollars  for  proper  endow- 
ments to  enable  her  to  get  the  best  of  everything.  I  devoutly  wish  she 
may  get  it,  and  just  as  devoutly  do  I  wish  I  had  it  to  send  her. 

Faithfully  yours,  L.  R.  Brewer. 


From  the  Missionary  Bishop  of  the  Platte^  Alumnus  of  Hobart  : 

My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  Your  kind  note  in  regard  to  the  anniversary 
of  the  College  and  your  tenth  anniversary  as  president  is  just  received.  I 
heartily  congratulate  you  and  the  College  on  the  prosperous  state  of  affairs. 
If  all  goes  well  I  hope  to  enter  my  oldest  son  there  a  year  from  next  summer. 
I  extremely  regret  that  previous  engagements  in  my  work  here  will  prevent 
my  attendance.  Sincerely  yours, 

Anson  R.  Graves. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Central  Pennsylvania. 

Rev.  and  Dear  President:  The  invitation  of  ''the  President  and 
Trustees  of  Hobart  College,"  which  you  have  personally  indorsed  with  a 
special  expression  of  desire  for  my  presence,  I  duly  received  and  have  care- 
fully considered.    My  earnest  desire  to  participate  in  the  enjoyments  of  the 


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occasion  has  been  one  of  the  occasions  of  my  delay  in  responding  to  your 
courtesy.  I  have  been  unwilling  to  cut  myself  off  from  so  delightful  an 
opportunity.  But  I  must  decline.  I  have  not  the  physical  strength  which 
such  an  effort  would  demand.  I  note  with  much  interest  the  advances 
w^hich  your  College  is  making  under  your  presidency  in  whatever  can  con- 
tribute to  its  usefulness  and  dignity.  I  heartily  wish  it  all  the  prosperity 
which  it  so  well  deserves. 

The  effort  in  which  you  are  so  efficient  an  agent  to  affiliate  the  colleges 
of  the  country,  and  to  uplift  them  in  their  associate  character  to  the  work 
and  distinction  which  belong  to  universities  is  worthy  of  generous  approval 
and  support. 

Provision  for  the  creation  and  endowment  of  fellowships  whereby  bright 
and  studious  young  men  may  be  enabled  to  proceed  to  walks  of  higher 
learning  than  is  contemplated  in  the  ordinary  college  curriculum,  which  I 
believe  is  engaging  your  attention,  ought  to  command  universal  interest  in 
the  Church.  I  shall  not  live  to  see  the  generation  of  American  scholars  who 
in  all  the  walks  of  Literature  will  have  attained  their  ability  to  produce 
original  contributions  through  the  help  which  your  endeavors  are  likely  to 
provide. 

I  bless  God  that  I  am  permitted  to  note  the  presage  of  such  a  period, 
aud  I  pray  for  your  full  success. 

Faithfully  and  respectfully  yours, 

M.  A.      Wolfe  Howe. 


Frojn  the  Bishop  of  Cdlifor^iia. 

If  we  are  remote,  still  our  interest  is  nevertheless  real,  especially  when 
the  events  concern  the  educational  work  of  our  teaching  Church.  I  beg  to 
express  my  regret  that  I  cannot  accept  the  invitation  for  the  evening  of  May 
3d,  and  to  congratulate  Hobart  College  on  its  threescore  years  and  ten,  and 
its  president,  as  well  as  the  college,  on  his  ten. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

W11.UAM  F.  N1CH01.S. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Northern  California. 

Rev.  AND  Dear  Dr:  I  have  just  come  in  from  one  of  my  missionary 
excursions  and  find  on  my  table  your  very  kind  and  gracious  invitation  to 
the  70th  birthday  of  the  college  over  which  you  have  the  honor  to  preside. 
Of  course  it  is  too  late  for  me  to  accept — and  I  fear  too  late  for  my  acknow- 
ledgement to  reach  you  before  the  natal  day — but  I  will  nevertheless  venture 
to  send  a  word  of  congratulation  and  best  wishes  for  the  future  prosperity 
of  the  institution  which  under  your  watchful  eye  and  skilful  hand  has  been 
for  so  many  years  a  credit  to  the  land  and  above  all,  an  honor  to  the  Church. 
May  your  zeal  be  still  further  rewarded  with  abundant  success  in  the  prose- 


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cution  of  your  educational  work,  and  may  it  be  hereafter  one  of  your  crowns 
of  rejoicing,  that  you  have  admisistered  the  affairs  of  Hobart  College  to  the 
greater  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of  His  Church  and  people.    Please  accept 
my  most  cordial  felicitations  and  believe  me  with  high  regard. 
Yours  obedient  servant  in  the  Lord, 

J.  H.  S.  WiNGFIELD. 


From  the  Bishop  of  Easton. 

Rkv.  and  Dkar  Doctor  :  I  thank  you  for  your  kind  invitation,  which 
has  just  reached  me,  and  were  it  in  my  power  would  gladly  avail  mvself  of 
the  privilege  of  being  with  you.  It  is  not,  however,  in  my  power  ;  my  en- 
gagements preclude  it.  Still  I  can  send  you  my  thanks  and  express  what  I 
suppose  every  thoughtful  man  must  feel — a  deep  interest  in  a  movement 
which  is  pregnant  of  untold  good  for  the  future  of  the  American  Church  and 
state  too.  Sincerely  and  affectionately  yours, 

WiWAM  F.  Adams. 


From  Bishop  Scherescheivsky. 

Dear  President  Potter  :  The  most  kind  invitation  of  yourself  and 
the  Trustees  of  Robert  College  to  attend  the  commemoration  of  the  seven- 
tieth year  of  the  foundation  of  the  college  and  the  decade  of  your  adminis- 
tration, is  received  with  thanks.  Please  accept  my  congratulations  upon  your 
devoted  and  earnest  labors  on  behalf  of  the  college,  and  my  best  wishes  for 
your  continued  success. 

I  regret  very  much  that  it  is  out  of  my  power  to  be  present  at  the  im- 
portant meeting  to  which  I  have  the  honor  to  be  invited.  But  I  may  venture 
to  say  that  the  immense  importance  of  the  educational  work  of  our  beloved 
Church  has  been  the  conviction  of  a  lifetime  ;  and  I  feel  that  the  more  pro- 
foundly the  greatness  of  this  work  is  realized  by  churchmen,  the  more  in- 
tense the  earnestness  with  which  lit  is  prosecuted,  the  wider  and  more  far- 
reaching  will  be  the  extension  and  the  influence  of  our  Church  in  America. 

Praying  that  Hobart  College  may  be  an  ever  increasing  power  in  our 
Church,  and  that  it  may  be  encouraged  by  the  constantly  increasing  interest 
and  the  liberal  gifts  and  bequests  of  Churchmen,  and  that  it  may  be  blessed 
and  prospered  in  all  things.    Believe  me 

Yours  most  sincerely, 

S.  I.  J.  SCHERESCHEWSKY. 


Diocese  of  West  Virginia. 

Bishop  Peterkin,  in  his  congratulatory  letter  (see  p.  9),  refers  to  his  last 
triennial  charge  in  the  course  of  which  he  remarks :  *'  The  question  of  what 
we  would  do  in  West  Virginia  for  the  education  of  our  youth,  under  Church 


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influences  is  one  that  has  been  constantly  present  to  my  mind,  and  has  occa- 
sioned much  anxious  thought.  Several  essays  have  been  made  looking  to 
such  education  for  our  girls,  but  so  far  without  permanent  success.  My 
more  particular  attention  has  recently  been  directed  to  a  similar  effort  in  be- 
half of  our  boys  and  young  men,  and  there  seems  to  be  no  insurmountable 
obstacle  in  the  way  of  its  accomplishment."    *    *  ^ 

Some  may  say  by  way  of  objection  to  doing  anything  in  the  direction  indi 
cated,  that  it  is  not  the  business  of  the  college  to  teach  religion,  or  to  be  an 
ecclesiastical  propaganda,  that  we  send  our  sons  to  college  for  an  education. 
But  we  must  not  fall  into  the  error  of  supposing  that  an  education  is  mental 
only.  The  ideal  college  cannot  be  considered  merely  as  a  place  of  instruc- 
tion, a  place  for  filling  the  mind  by  means  of  books  and  lectures.  Mere 
learning  is  only  intellectual  lumber,  unless  it  be  shaped  and  inspired  by 
social  and  spiritual  ideals  ;  or  at  best,  without  these  it  becomes  the  mere  in- 
strument of  a  money  getting,  sordid  and  selfish  life." — Bishop  Peterkin's 
Annual  Address. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  an  invita- 
tion to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hobart  College,  etc.,  etc.,  etc., 
to  be  held  May  3,  1894,  in  Hobart  Hall,  New  York. 

I  am  deeply  interested  in  Hobart  College  and  in  the  Church  University 
movement.  To  this  movement  we  must  look  for  the  needed  relief  from  the 
existing  skeptical  tendencies  of  modern     Higher  Education." 

I  regret,  however,  most  sincerely,  my  inability  to  attend.  Our  academic 
year  closes  May  i6th  and  much  remains  for  me  to  do. 

With  sincere  respect, 

J.  H.  C.  BoNTE, 
University  of  California. 


GentJvEmen:  I  beg  to  tender  you  my  best  thanks  for  your  kind  invitation 
to  be  present  at  your  most  interesting  meeting  on  the  3d  proximo,  and  although 
deeply  in  sympathy  with  any  movement  to  promote  the  interests- of  Hobart, 
I  regret  that  living  so  far  off  it  will  be  quite  impossible  for  me  to  attend. 

Wishing  you  every  success  in  your  effort  to  extend  Church  Collegiate 
Education,"  I  have  the  honor  to  be,  gentlemen. 

Yours  very  faithfully,  W.  K.  BerRY, 

Rector  of  Hope  Church  and  Kx- Warden  of  Kemper  Hall,  Davenport,  la. 


Among  other  courteous  communications  from  leading  educa- 
tors is  that  of  Chancellor  Day,  of  Syracuse  University. 


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Dr.  Henry  Coppee,  first  president  and  now  the  acting  head  of 
Lehigh  University,  presented  congratulations  in  person  at  the 
reception. 

Bishop  Neely,  alumnus  and  former  chaplain,  called  at  Hobart 
College  to  express  in  person  his  gratification  with  the  results  of 
the  administration  and  his  loyal  devotion  to  his  Alma  Mater. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Hughes,  former  chaplain  of  Hobart 
College  and  now  in  addition  to  his  rectorship,  the  acting  general 
secretary  of  the  Church  University  Board  of  Regents,  expressed 
himself  with  equal  cordiality,  attending  the  reception  and  greatly 
furthering  its  marked  success. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Van  Rensselaer,  ex-president  of  Hobart  Col- 
lege, has  been  similarl}^  heard  from,  strongly  commending  also 
President  Potter's  use  of  much  of  his  leisure  time  and  with  the 
cooperation  of  his  students  in  outlying  missionary  fields. 

From  the  Dean  and  Faculty  of  Union  College  a  congratula- 
tory message  was  received  during  the  reception  and  cordially 
acknowledged  ;  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Union 
College  and  governor  of  Union  University  with  others,  honoring 
the  reception  by  attendance. 


My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  The  duties  of  Ascension  Day  making  it  im- 
possible for  me  to  attend  the  Hobart  College  meeting  in  New  York,  I  omitted 
the  formality  of  a  negative  response  to  the  invitation  sent  me  as  Rector  of 
Trinity  Parish.  But  in  any  record  that  may  appear  of  that  meeting,  touch- 
ing the  relation  of  the  College  to  the  Church  life  in  its  neighborhood,  there 
should  not  be  omitted  some  mention  of  the  mutual  interchange  of  good 
offices  between  the  mother  parish  of  the  town  and  the  institution  whose 
home  is  within  its  borders.  On  the  one  part  there  is  warm  interest  in  the 
College  life,  as  evinced  by  frequent  gifts  to  meet  academic  or  personal  needs, 
by  the  maintenance  of  a  scholarship  "  and.  by  the  presence  of  large  num- 
bers of  its  people  at  every  College  celebration. 

On  the  other  part,  there  is  the  appreciated  gain  arising  from  the  presence 
in  our  midst  of  a  body  of  cultivated  people,  sharing  freely  with  others  their 
literary  and  intellectual  treasures,  and  your  own  always  kindly  and  helpful 
offices  readily  extended  to  meet  the  emergencies  of  our  parish  or  of  the 
neighborhood  work,  and  as  quickly  granted  when  the  call  comes  from  a  poor 
mission  station,  as  from  a  well-to-do  congregation. 
^  We  gladly,  therefore,  avail  ourselves  of  this,  as  of  every  opportunity,  to 

express  our  good  will  and  our  good  wishes  for  the  College  whose  presence 


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here  is  so  greatly  to  our  advantage,  and  for  its  President,  whose  good  offices 
have  been  ever  at  our  disposal.    I  am,  my  dear  Dr.  Potter, 

Very  cordially  yours, 

H.  W.  NeIvSON,  Jr.  , 
Trinity  Rectory,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  thank  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  for 
their  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  reception  to  be  given  at  Hobart 
Hall  in  New  York  on  May  3d,  but  my  engagements  will  be  such  at  the  time 
as  to  forbid  my  accepting  it. 

Please  present  my  congratulations  to  President  Potter  and  the  other 
officers  of  the  College  on  the  existing  prosperity  of  Hobart. 

Sincerely  yours, 

J.  ISHAM  Bl,lSS, 
St.  Paul's  Rectory,  Burlington,  Vt. 


Dear  President  Potter  :  With  deep  regret,  I  find  it  impossible  to 
be  present  at  the  reception  in  New  York  on  Ascension  Day.  But  I  wish  to 
express  my  warm  congratulations  on  the  vigor  and  dignity  with  which  Ho- 
bart College  celebrates  its  seventieth  birthday,  and  the  wisdom  and  efficiency 
which  have  marked  the  decennium  of  your  administration. 

All  who  have  at  heart  the  interests  of  sound  learning  and  the  Church  of 
Christ  must  recognize  the  significance  of  the  occasion,  and  pray  that  it  may 
tend  to  a  proper  appreciation  and  enlargement  of  the  work  which  Hobart 
College  is  doing  for  the  Church. 

Faithfully  yours, 

Walton  W.  Battershai.1,, 
Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Albany,  and  Trustee  of  Hobart  College. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  acknowledge  with  high  appreciation  the  receipt  of  an 
invitation  from  the  President  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  to  participate 
in  the  reunion  of  the  Faculty  and  Alumni  at  Hobart  Hall  on  the  3d  of  May, 
prox.,  and  regret  that  it  will  not  be  in  my  power  to  respond  in  person. 

With  all  my  heart,  however,  I  wish  you,  and  predict  for  you,  an  enthu- 
siastic revival  of  our  Church  Educational  interests.  That  the  Great  Teacher 
may  be  your  guide  in  all  things  pertaining  to  the  glory  of  His  kingdom, 
lam,  Very  truly  yours, 

Horace  Ci^ark, 
Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Corpus  Christi,  Texas. 


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Dear  Sir  :  I  beg  to  acknowledge  with  pleasure  the  receipt  of  your  kind 
invitation  to  the  reception  of  May  3d,  but  am  regretfully  obliged  to  forego 
participation  in  the  interesting  features  of  that  occasion.  I  beg  to  assure  you, 
however,  of  my  most  cordial  sympathy  with  the  objects  and  aims  to  be  ac- 
centuated by  this  gathering,  and  would  offer  my  congratulations  to  both 
Hobart  College  and  President  Potter  on  the  happy  completion  of  the  periods 
commemorated  by  the  date  selected  for  the  reception. 

Very  cordially, 

Edward  Henry  Eckei., 
Trinity  Church,  West  Pittston,  Pa. 


I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  invitation,  etc.,  and  beg  to 
say  that  being  of  infirm  health  for  some  years  I  would  not  feel  able  to  attend 
the  very  interesting  gathering  to  which  I  have  received  invitation. 

I  am  glad  to  see  that  Hobart  College  is  taking  an  honorable  place  among 
o#r  Church  Colleges,  and  feel  the  more  pleasure  therein  because  my  beloved 
father,  the  late  Rev.  Wm.  W.  Bostwick,  was  one  of  the  earliest  students  in 
Geneva,  now  Hobart  College.    Accept  my  very  best  wishes  for  the  college. 

Yours  truly,  John  L.  Bostwick,  Rector, 

Fair  Haven,  Conn. 


Dear  Sir  :  I  have  just  spent  a  most  delightful  fortnight  in  this  fair 
land  of  flowers,"  with  two  Hobart  men.  Rev.  C.  H.  Hibbard  and  A.  C. 
Moore  ;  and  this  experience  adds  to  the  regret  that  I  cannot  meet  the  rest  o^ 
the  alumni  on  the  3d  of  May,  but  the  distance  and  the  duties  in  my  parish 
render  it  impossible.  I  am  deeply  interested  in  "  Church  Collegiate  Educa- 
tion," and  I  thank  you  for  the  invitation. 

Hoping  that  much  good  may  come  of  the  meeting,  I  am, 

Yours  truly, 

Wm.  Wii^son  De  Hart, 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  Tampa,  Florida. 


Genti^emen  :  I  desire  to  express  with  my  regrets  my  keen  appreciation 
of  your  kind  invitation  to  meet  you  and  your  distinguished  guests  at  Hobart 
Hall,  May  sd,  1894. 

As  a  resident  of  Geneva  with  intimate  relations — through  five  sons — with 
Hobart  College,  I  must  offer  my  congratulation  on  the  established  condition 
of  the  college  at  this  time.  The  authorities  under  the  administration  of 
President  Hinsdale  renovated  Geneva  and  Trinity  Halls,  since  which  time 
improvements  in  many  respects  have  followed,  culminating  in  even  more 
than  is  set  forth  in  the  complimentry  resolutions  of  Hobart's  Faculty  embodied 
in  the  circular  received.    The  resolutions  of  the  Faculty  w^ill  give  great 


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pleasure  to  Hobart's  friends.  Coupled  with  the  established  reputation  of 
Hobart's  Alumni,  the  high  state  of  discipline  of  the  undergraduates  and  Ho- 
bart's President  at  the  head  of  the  university  movement  assures  distinguished 
success  for  the  college.  Very  respectfully  yours, 

R.  Johnston, 
Ex-Commandant  De  Veaux  College. 


My  Dear  Dr.  Pottkr  :  The  invitation  to  the  reception  to  be  held 
here  next  week  has  been  received.  I  am  very  sorry  that  on  account  of  an 
important  engagement  that  evening  I  will  not  be  able  to  be  present.  ^  ^ 

I  am  always  very  much  interested  in  my  Alma  Mater  and  hope  that  the 
time  may  come  when  I  may  manifest  my  interest  in  some  material  way.  I 
realize  what  Hobart  has  done  for  me  and  feel  that  it  filled  my  particular 
needs  better  than  any  other  college  could  have  done.  Trusting  that  I  may 
see  you  at  the  Seminary  next  week,  I  am, 

Very  sincerely,  G.  R.  Brush, 

General  Theological  Seminary. 


GenTIvKMKN  :  I  am  gratefully  obliged  by  your  invitation  to  meet  repre- 
sentatives of  your  Faculty  and  Alumni  in  Hobart  Hall,  in  the  city  of  New 
York  on  the  third  of  next  month  ;  but  I  regret  to  say  that  I  cannot  be  pres- 
ent with  you,  at  what  I  am  sure  will  prove  a  most  interesting  and  instructive 
meeting.  '  The  purposes  for  which  the  meeting  is  to  be  convened,  and  what- 
ever may  promote  the  best  interests  of  the  Church  University  Board  of  Re- 
gents will  always  commend  my  most  cordial  sympathy. 

Very  sincerely,  your  friend  and  obedient  servant, 

Benj.  Stark, 
New  London,  Conn. 


Dear  Brother  :  Joseph  wept  when  he  saw  his  brethren.  I  often  do 
so  because  I  cannot  meet  mine,  and  now  especially  feel  like  it,  that  I  cannot 
accept  the  noble  invitation  to  meet  you  all  for  old  Hobart."  I  hope  you 
will  have  shekels  by  the  bushel  poured  out  upon  you  and  that  '*the  Potters 
will  have  the  power  to  make  many  a  heap  of  clay,  into  a  Hobart  Vessel  of 
honor."  Yours  truly, 

Rev.  J.  Wainw^right  Ray, 

Govt.  Land  Office  Clerk. 


My  Dear  vSir  :  I  am  in  receipt  of  an  invitation  from  the  President 
and  Trustees  of  Hobart  College  for  May  3d  in  New  York,  and  regret  very 
much  that  important  engagements  will  prevent  my  accepting  same.    I  earn- 


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estly  wish  there  was  more  of  Church  Collegiate  Education  than  there  is,  and 
hope  the  success  your  college  has  obtained  may  not  only  continue  but  largely 
increase.     *        ^  Yours  truly, 

Geo.  H.  Minchenkr, 

Detroit,  Mich. 


GENTI.EMEN  : 

I  beg  to  acknowledge,  with  thanks,  the  receipt  of  the  invitation  to  be 
present  on  the  evening  of  May  3d,  at  Hobart  Hall,  New  York,  and  to  sa}- 
that  I  regret  exceedingly  my  inability  to  accept  the  invitation.  Recalling  the 
early  days  of  your  institution  as  ''Geneva  College,"  I  am  happy  to  note  the 
marked  advance  of  recent  years,  and  especially  since  the  inauguration  of 
your  honored  president.  Very  respectfully, 

G.  POMEROY  KeESE, 
Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 


My  Dear  Dr.  Potter  :  I  regret  that  your  very  courteous  invitation 
for  yesterday  did  not  reach  us  in  time  for  us  to  make  proper  acknowledge- 
ments of  its  acceptance.  We  are  in  the  midst  of  annual  examination  and 
cannot  leave  our  posts  at  this  time.  It  would  have  been  a  pleasure  to  us  to 
meet  the  distinguished  gentlemen,  who  met  in  Hobart  Hall,  and  to  listen 
to  the  addresses. 

With  sincere  appreciation  and  high  esteem,  I  am,  my  dear  sir, 
Yours  very  truly,  Henry  M.  Booth, 

Theological  Seminary,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 


My  Dear  Mr.  President  :  Do  let  me  send  you  one  word  of  most 
hearty  congratulation,  in  view  of  this  coming  reception  May  3,  and  in 
thought  of  all  that  you  have  been  enabled  to  do  for  Hobart  College  and  for 
the  great  work  of  Christian  education. 

I  am  not  slow  to  appreciate  the  trials  and  difficulties  which  you  have 
known  ;  nor  can  I  fail  to  recognize  the  large  and  blessed  results,  which  have 
been  reached  under  your  guidance. 

You  would  hardly  know,  perhaps,  that  I  was  once  a  minima  pars  in  the 
small  force  at  Hobart  where  I  served  as  chaplain  almost  thirty  years  ago. 

How  readily  I  recall  those  days  ;  and  the  men  who  shared  in  the  patient 
struggle,  and  in  the  quiet  waiting ;  and  many  special  incidents  of  the  time. 
It  is  an  instance  of  Jestina  lentissime,  while  our  eager  hearts  crave  quick 
and  visible  gains  ;  and  yet  educational  gains,  for  the  most  part,  must  come 
slowly. 

I  send  you  this  briefest  note,  which  merits  no  recognition,  in  token  of 
my  sincere  regard,  and  in  proof  of  my  kindest  wishes  for  all  the  future  of 
Hobart  College  and  its  president. 

Faithfully  yours,  PElyHAM  W1LI.IAMS, 

New  York. 


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My  Dear  Doctor  Potter  :  I  regret  very  much  that  I  could  not  be 
present  at  the  reception  IVCay  3d,  1894.  That  you  deserved  all  the  good 
things  that  were  said  of  you  goes  without  saying.  The  whole  Church  is  in- 
debted to  you  for  your  efforts  to  promote  the  cause  of  Church  Education, 
and  I  pray  God  that  you  may  be  long  spared  to  carry  on  the  work  so  nobly 
begun. 

The  rectory  family  join  me  in  affectionate  remembrance,  and  the  doors 
are  open  to  you  whenever  you  may  find  time  to  visit  Norfolk  again.  With 
highest  esteem,  Very  cordially  yours, 

BEvERiyY  D.  Tucker, 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Similar  letters  have  been  received  from  many  friends  at  the  south,  es- 
pecially from  Savannah  and  Charleston. 


My  Dear  President  Potter  :  Your  invitation  of  self  and  vestry  to 
attend  reunion  or  meeting  in  Hobart  Hall,  Diocesan  House,  N.  Y.,  on  May 
3d,  is  received  with  many  thanks  for  the  consideration.  It  will  not  be  in  the 
power  of  any  of  us  to  attend. 

Will  you  pardon  a  reference  to  old  times  when  we  were  at  ''Berkeley" 
together  ?  I  have  often  thought  of  our  long  conversation  in  your  room  one 
night  on  the  great  political  question  of  the  time,  and  your  singular  courtesy 
and  absolute  fairness  in  our  discussion.  But  this  is,  perhaps,  long  forgotten 
by  you.  I  am,  very  truly,  your  obedient  servant, 

W.  R.  Richardson, 
St  Mark's  Retory,  San  Antonio,  Tex. 


Dear  President  Potter  :  ...  It  has  seemed  to  me  not  impossible 
that  Union  should  be  more  successful,  than  in  its  latest  years.  It  was  bad 
for  Union  although  fortunate  for  Hobart  that  you  transferred  your  labors  to 
Geneva ;  and  but  for  previous  engagements,  I  should  like  to  hear  the  com- 
mendation of  your  successes  on  the  3d  of  May,  and  thank  you  for  the  invi- 
tation. Very  sincerely  yours, 

George  F.  Dan forth, 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 


Dear  President  Potter:  .  .  .  I  send  you  hearty  congratulations 
and  best  wishes  (which  you  know  you  always  have  for  your  success  in  the 
future  and  for  the  prosperity  of  Hobart).  I  believe  you  have  a  future  before 
you  which  nothing  in  the  past  has  equaled,  and  if  God  spares  your  life  and 
health  you  will  honor  still  more  the  great  names  you  bear. 

Ever  your  friend,  J.  Livin(;ston  Reese, 

Registrar  of  General  Convention. 


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At  the  close  of  the  evening  in  Hobart  Hall,  President  Potter 
led  those  assembled  in  the  Lord's  Prayer  and  in  the 

Thanksgiving  for  Benefactors, 

Blessed  be  Thy  Name,  O  Lord,  for  the  happy  memory  of 
the  founders  and  benefactors  of  this  College,  and  for  all  who 
remember  it  in  their  labours  and  their  prayers  :  Raise  up,  in  its 
behalf,  many  friends  and  helpers  to  enlarge  the  same  ;  Granting 
unto  them  that  wisdom  through  which  an  house  is  builded  and 
the  understanding  by  which  it  is  established  ;  that  so  by  know- 
ledge its  halls  may  be  filled  with  all  precious  and  pleasant  riches  : 
For  the  silver  and  the  gold  are  Thine,  O  lyord  our  God,  and  all 
things  come  of  Thee  :  therefore,  unto  Thee  we  look  for  all  that 
we  desire ;  and  for  all  that  Thou  hast  done  for  us,  we  praise  Thee 
and  bless  Thy  glorious  Name  ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Strength 
and  our  Redeemer.  A7nen. 


